Quotes of: Common-people Keyword

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DeOLs

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Philip Wylie

People think common sense is common - but it's not.

Don Cherry

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

James Howell

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Louise Leakey

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Noam Chomsky

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

Harold Washington

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Joyce Meyer

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

George Jean Nathan

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Robert Duvall

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

Arlo Guthrie

Most people have sense but not common sense.

Debasish Mridha